Here's a super simple Whipped Cream Super Laundry Soap, Do It Yourself detergent that doesn't leave any residue on clothing, gets nearly every stain known to man out the first time around and smells clean and fresh- oh and did I mention that it costs about $1.76 for 128 loads of laundry?

Here is an amazingly simple Do It Yourself detergent that doesn't leave any residue on clothing, gets nearly every stain known to man out the first time around and smells clean and fresh- oh and did I mention that it costs about $1.76 for 128 loads of laundry?

Since our teen son started working at a fast food restaurant, this has become our most-loved detergent recipe. His clothing was so saturated with heavy french fry and onion ring grease scent that even washing them in TIDE didn't take out the horrendous smell. I whipped up a half gallon of this detergent and washed his clothes while he

was at school- he thought I'd gotten a new shirt from his boss at work! First time EVER that ALL of the smell finally came out of his clothes, without further ado - here is my Super Laundry Sauce recipe!

By the way, One Single tablespoon of soap does a whole load of wash! As with ALL household/Soap/Detergent/ Cleaner recipes, please take the time to read through the ENTIRE recipe before starting it. It will save you loads of hassle with a recipe that doesn't set properly.

Quick Note: Follow the directions Carefully, adding the ingredients at the wrong time will result in a grainy

textured detergent that will not dissolve well in the washer.

Step 1: Put 4 cups of water in a large heavy saucepan over high heat. While that is heating, mix the borax and washing soda together in a bowl, mixing well, set aside.

Step 2: Grate the Fels Naptha- the easiest way to do this is to cut it into several smaller chunks and then run it through a food processor- otherwise, you can just grate it with a hand grater or shave it with a knife.

Step 3: Add the freshly grated soap to the water in the saucepan, stirring almost constantly. Reduce the heat to medium, It will take approximately 10 – 15 minutes for the Fels Naptha to complete dissolve. If it takes longer, your heat wasn't up high enough. Alternatively, you can melt the fels on the stove over low heat without water then add the water afterwards, stirring it in, as the original recipe called for. I find that it's much easier to melt IN the water. Absolutely do NOT let this Boil over, or you'll have a

sudsy mess that you do NOT want to contend with!!

It should be a rolling, simmering boil where you must stir Constantly but it does not foam heavily or seem to "creep up" the saucepan. See the photo below- note the amount of "foam" - that's all you should see.

Step 4: Once the fels naptha has completely melted, remove the pan from the heat and add in the Borax and the Washing Soda, stirring constantly until the powders are completely dissolved, this will take about 3-5 minutes. Do not under-stir or your soap texture will be very grainy rather than smooth. (You can fee the "graininess" on the bottom of the pan, once you can't feel it, it's incorporated fully!)

Step 5: Pour the liquid equally into (2) 1 quart Mason jars.

Step 6: Add just enough water to bring the contents up to the “shoulders” or Rounded part of the jar, leaving approximately 1 ½ inches of headspace.

Step 7: Put the lid on the jars and turn them UPSIDE DOWN and let them sit a few hours (about 4 - 5 hours). The reason for this is that the soap is going to Separate into layers while it's resting and occasionally will form crystals on the bottom. Rather than waste these trying to scrape them off,

in the next step we're going to incorporate them easily! Btw, if you leave it overnight it will have a slightly grainier texture than if you whip it immediately after 4 hours.

The Layers will separate after a few hours:

Then the bottom layer will become very, very thick, like so:

Step 8: There are two ways to do this next step, depending on what you have for equipment. Here's how I like to do it- unscrew the blade and bottom from your blender and screw them onto your regular mouthed mason jar containing all of your ingredients.

Place the entire mason jar on the blender and whip until smooth and creamy throughout, about a minute. Flip back over, unscrew the blender blade, attach a cover and seal.

If you don't have mason jars or a blender, pour the contents of your settled jar into a large bowl, be sure to scrape down any remaining from the jar to get it all. Using a Hand mixer, Whip the ingredients until light and fluffy and well blended. Transfer the ingredients back into the jar, cover and store until needed. If you like, add a tsp of glycerin per jar.

Step 9: To use, add 1 Tablespoon to a load of laundry in any type of machine, conventional, Front

Loader, High Capacity & High Efficiency (HE), etc. Do not add the detergent to the "detergent compartment" but instead directly with the dirty clothes. The detergent is Smooth and creamy with the same Look and consistency of Mayonnaise. Be sure to label the jar to prevent accidental ingestion!!

Here is EXACTLY how I use our detergent:

Top Loading Machine Directions

Fill the machine with dirty clothes

start the water, (hot- Cold- or warm- doesn't matter)

Measure out 1 Tablespoon (literally) of super laundry sauce

stick the measuring spoon of detergent under the running water, let it fall off the spoon.

Close the washer lid, go away and do something else while the machine runs.

Front-loader Machine Directions:

Fill the machine with dirty clothes

Measure out 1 Tablespoon (literally) of super laundry sauce On Top of the dirty Clothes

Close the washer, start it, go away and do something else while the machine runs.

Really, it's that easy folks!

Tips and Tricks, Troubleshooting & Other Thoughts and experiences:

Do NOT Use Baking Soda or Oxyclean in this recipe hoping it will be an added "Boost". Your jars will likely explode within 7-10 days in storage (Don't ask

how we know!)

We have not had any issues with clothing fading due to use

Since the Soaps have been completely dissolved in this recipe, it leaves NO residue on your clothing like many homemade detergent recipes

This recipe can easily be doubled to make a Full Gallon of Detergent.

This can be stored indefinitely. It does become slightly firmer but still melts fine in water, hot or cold

Fels Naptha Can usually be found in the Laundry Detergent Isle of the Grocery Store for about $1 a bar, or it can be found online here.

If you leave the detergent sitting more than 6 hours without whipping it, it will likely take on a grainy texture. It should be light, smooth, silky feeling with no "gritty" feeling whatsoever. If it Does have grit, that means that it did Not dissolve properly.

What do I do if it's too grainy or if it doesn't separate? If it's too grainy or doesn't separate it means that the soaps were not fully dissolved. You can spoon the mixture back into your saucepan and remelt it until it is smooth. Try not to breathe in the fumes, remember, you are making detergent! Once it feels "smooth" pour it back into the mason jars. Let it set a few hours and then whip.

Gritty Soap- if your soap is mostly smooth with only a little "grit" feeling, it will still work fine, but may not dissolve well in cold water.

If you have Moderately gritty soap that DID separate, but you don't feel like it's "good enough" to use in your laundry, then use it as a super stain remover for those stubborn stains

If your soap is Super Gritty or didn't separate, you should remelt it over medium heat, stirring constantly.

I made the soap and the end result looked just like the picture. However when I used it in the laundry, my stinky gym clothes still were stinky at the end of the cycle. Do u think its didnt dissolve properly or I need to add more fels naptha?

The Fels SOAP IN IN THE DETERGENT ISLE ALONG WITH THE BORAX AND WASHING SODA. AT THE WALMART IN MY AREA THE SOAP WAS RIGHT NEXT TO THE BORAX AND WASHING SODA.

I've also found it (including the Fels Naptha) at our local Hyvee supermarket. I've seen the borax & washing soda @ SuperSaver supermarket also. So maybe looking in the laundry area of the supermarkets might work.

Does anyone have a recipe for those Purex Crystal Effects? Those smell great but are expensive to buy!

No, but there is a coupon in the forums for $1.50 off which makes them about $1.45- couple that with the fact that you can probably make 10 batches or so of soap before the bottle runs out and it's actually pretty frugal.

Also, I can't find it at the moment, but someone just asked about low sudsing- this is a Low Sudsing Soap, that means you should NOT exceed the recommended amount of soap per load which is 1 Tablespoon. Rest assured, it doesn't need to froth/bubble up to clean the clothes.

I saw this and I wanted so badly to try it and I am from Canada I could not find the ingredients anywhere, I was so dissapointed but I kept looking and I finally found some (not exact) on a site called well.ca so I ordered my ingredients and I will try this out as soon as I receive them, I will certainly post again, to let you know if they turned out ok.

I actually halved the recipe. It came out super creamy and looks just like your pics! I'm curious though - is it a very low sudsing detergent or is my super hard water making it so? Or is it because I halved it?

Haven't made this yet. But, have made a dry recipe I love. I used the Fels Naptha bar & grated it with the grater attachment on my Kitchenaid stand mixer. Super fast and super easy. Smaller pieces than in these illustrations above.

I'm using this in a front load HE washer. I scoop a tablespoon out of the jar, shake it or wipe it out of the spoon with a piece of clothing & toss the spoon into the load, shut the door & press start.

Lunytunes, thank you for your description of what you do with the front loader! I have a front loader and just finished making a batch of the soap. It never occurred to me that I could toss the plastic tablespoon in the washer. Duh.

I'm confused on why you say the Zote doesn't work at all. I made this recipe with Fels-Naptha a couple of weeks ago; and then made more last night using the Zote instead. I had to double the recipe, as the bar of soap is larger (I only used about 2/3 of the bar), but it came out very creamy and fresh smelling. I've washed 6 loads of laundry with it already, and my clothes have no residue and smell very fresh.

I'm confused on why you say the Zote doesn't work at all. I made this recipe with Fels-Naptha a couple of weeks ago; and then made more last night using the Zote instead. I had to double the recipe, as the bar of soap is larger (I only used about 2/3 of the bar), but it came out very creamy and fresh smelling. I've washed 6 loads of laundry with it already, and my clothes have no residue and smell very fresh.

The composition of the bars is completely different, yes you get a pretty smelling detergent, but that's about it. Zote is made from animals fats- it leaves a nasty residue on the inside of the washing machine that will build up over time and be a bugger to remove.
Secondly it does NOT contain the enzymes and solvents that Fels Naptha contains, which means unlike Fels it cannot and does not break down blood stains, grass stains, ring around the collar or any other tough stain for that matter. Zote Contains Animal Fat and does NOT breakdown or dissolve greasy stains.
Fels naptha has a lower water content, making it more concentrated. All in all, this recipe is not meant for use with Zote, nor do we recommend it. If you can't find it locally, we suggest purchasing Fels Naptha Online. You'll get a MUCH better detergent that won't slime your washing machine over time. Removing the Fels is taking the "Super" out of the "Sauce".

I saw this and I wanted so badly to try it and I am from Canada I could not find the ingredients anywhere, I was so dissapointed but I kept looking and I finally found some (not exact) on a site called well.ca so I ordered my ingredients and I will try this out as soon as I receive them, I will certainly post again, to let you know if they turned out ok.

UPDATE I made the laundry soap but it came out kinda hard and not creamy what ever did I do wrong?

Ok...I read pretty much all the comments, and I don't think anyone has asked this question yet. Forgive me if they have. I really, really want to try making this recipe, but I don't have the mason jars. Has anyone tried doing this without them? I went to buy them, but you have to buy a dozen of them for, $15. It's a little less budget-friendly if I have to buy all those extra jars, and I live in an apartment anyway, and don't really have the excess space for that. Any suggestions?

Ok, so I made this according to your directions, minus the blender (although that would have been SO much easier...I don't have one. So I used my Kitchen Aid). The first one I whipped up looked perfect, the second one whipped up so much I had to use 4 extra little jars to put it in. Is there something I can do to reverse that or do I need to use more than a tablespoon as its more widely distributed? I am so excited about not having to store my detergent in a 5 gallon paint bucket.

I have made a similar recipe to this before, but I had to store it in a 5 gallon paint bucket. lame. I am pretty pumped about having this recipe- I made it this afternoon during Fischer's nap time. I had 2 jars that I turned over and they settled nicely. When my husband left for work, I put them in the mixing bowl (as I do not have a blender...which would have made my life a lot easier) separately and the first jar came out nicely. it almost looked the consistency of thick lotion. The second jar, however...I fear I may have whipped it too much. It fluffed up so much I couldn't fit it in the original mason jar, I had to get 3 other little jars to put the rest of the stuff in. SO, is there any way I can make the detergent "shrink"? or do I need to just use more than a tablespoon since it is spread a little thinner....? ugh. I can't wait to use it, though